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[REGNUM] The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, died after a long illness at the age of 88. This was reported on May 10 by Ukrainian News.
Kravchuk is the first president of Ukraine, who held this post from December 5, 1991 to July 19, 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, pledging to abandon Ukraine's nuclear arsenal.
...clearly a nickname, In the video she is also called something like T’laiah...
was taking part in a 200m running race when she lost her shoe
Just one second into the race she turned around and went to put it back on
The delay cost her precious seconds but she still carried on running
In what was the race of her life, she quickly caught up with her competitors
In the final straight she could be seen powering ahead before ultimately winning
Some have commented on social media how Lay Lay is the daughter of professional boxer Terrence Crawford who has held multiple world championships, including the WBO welterweight title since 2018.
Crawford has three sons and three daughters one of whom is indeed named Lay Lay.
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Fighter planes are for establishing and maintaining control of the air so the bombers can get into the fight. You don't operate bombers without fighters around.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Egyptian boys practicing to be that extra special kind of Egyptian man.
A video surfaced on social media showing teenagers harassing female tourists
The young women were visiting the Giza Pyramids in the Egyptian capital Cairo
The boys jeer at the women and some press close to them as they try to get away
According to a statement from the prosecutor's office, the arrested boys are between 13 and 15 years old. The statement did not provide any details on the women tourists.
If charged, the boys will be tried before a juvenile court.
Visitors to the Pyramids at Giza and other famous archaeological sites in Egypt are routinely approached and followed by young men offering tours, souvenirs, carriage or camel rides.
The problem of sexual harassment in Egypt gained worldwide attention during and after the 2011 uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, when women were harassed, groped - and in some cases, beaten and sexually assaulted - during mass anti-government protests.
In recent years, women inspired by the #MeToo movement have spoken out on social media about the problem.
Authorities have increased penalties for sexual harassment, which is now punishable with up to five years in prison.
They have also intensified efforts to combat harassment and aggressive touts at tourist sites.
[Aljazeera] Russian President Vladimir Putin is still looking to achieve military objectives beyond eastern Ukraine after failing to capture Kyiv in the early stages of the war, the US intelligence chief has said.
Speaking to US lawmakers on Tuesday, Avril Haines, the US director of national intelligence, said the shifting of Russian military operations to Ukraine’s Donbas region in the east is only temporary.
"We assess President Putin is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas," Haines said.
"We assess that Putin’s strategic goals have probably not changed, suggesting he regards the decision in late March to refocus Russian forces on the Donbas is only a temporary shift to regain the initiative after the Russian military’s failure to capture Kyiv."
Haines said US intelligence has assessed that Putin wants to expand territory across the Black Sea coast possibly to Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova backed by Russia. Such a move would help Russia secure water supplies to Crimea, which it captured and annexed in 2014, and potentially deny Ukraine access to the sea.
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No shit, Sherlock. The prize has always been the land bridge connecting the South with the East. Which Russia now has.
Any intelligent policy would entail forcing the US puppet regime to go back to Minsk II... Except now Russia controls Azov and the Black Sea coast.
Had the Biden Administration not goaded this little prick into reversing his pro-peace position -- the one that got him ejected in the first place -- this whole mess could have been avoided. So now we're on the brink of WWIII, Ukraine has been trashed, and Russia has achieved its #1 strategic objective. Brilliant.
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correction: "the one that got him elected in the first place"
(It was Right Sector and the other fascists who tried to "eject" Zelensky. This is one reason he did a 180 and began provoking Russia with insane talk about "taking back" Crimea and joining NATO.)
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The war was Putin's choice. I dislike Biden as well, but stop trying to make him into a puppet master.
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Biden is an ass puppet. And Putie-pie has been playing rope-a-dope with our presidents since W and closing those invasion corridors. Ukraine was supposed to be easy and he could really build up to take the Baltics.
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At the rate he's going, Pootie will be lucky to hang onto the Donbas puppet states. And the RuAF are going to wrecked for a decade, regardless of the outcome.
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From a practical standpoint, we shouldn't care if Putin makes Russia the perfect fortress, beyond anything we can learn about doing the same here.
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My current understanding is:
1- Anything Putin succeeds at was a critical part of the original plan.
2- Anything Putin fails at -- like this genius river crossing -- was a feint, a diversion, or never part of the original plan.
So Putin remains a master strategist regardless of events. It's sort of like a new math test in which any answer is acceptable.
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^^^ I think that makes great sense. America is a dumpster fire economically and culturally. Enemies foreign and domestic are wreaking havoc on norms and institutions they haven't infiltrated, and the Covid passivity taught many of our fellow citizens is paralyzing the natural American urge to stand up, confront the BS and say "Enough!" across a wide spectrum of American daily life.
Retrenchment, re-industrialization, economic and monetary stability, political/cultural/media realignment to traditional American values and policies, a hemispheric re-look at the Value of Monroe Doctrine 2.0, and realigning our entire educational/cultural focus to assimilation, not diversity as a normative process to blend the enormous shadow presence of illegals here now. Separation from the foreign messes that are consuming our federal government might be a good thing for all. The children who play at world leadership and are profligate with borrowed money to pose as world police while the house burns down has got to stop.
Let the Chinese burn themselves out as the world sees their Sino-centricity as cancerous, and the Russians find a way back to membership in Western civilization post-Putin. We have nearly broken th greatest experiment in human political history. Our unique successes in the 20th century have grow generations of those so accustomed to plenty, privilege and power they have no idea how fragile a gift they inherited or how quickly it is breaking from lack of maintenance or even understanding it's genius.
[PJMEDIA] INews, an independent news source in the UK, is reporting that a network of former Soviet sanatoriums and other sites in regions including Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle, and the Far East, are housing Ukrainians forcibly removed from their homeland. Some of the camps are up to 5,500 miles from Ukraine.
The sites are known as Temporary Accommodation Points (TAP). The Russians call them fil’tratsiia, or filtration camps.
Moscow had ordered towns and cities across Russia to prepare for the arrival of nearly 100,000 "refugees." The Russian government now claims it has "evacuated" one million people from the war zone. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in April that 500,000 Ukrainians had been sent to Russia.
It seems clear that there are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from areas occupied by the Russian army who aren’t in Ukraine anymore.
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[IsraelTimes] Questioned on fires at Russian factories and fuel depots, Zelensky adviser notes Israel doesn’t acknowledge covert attacks and liquidations.
A deadly fire at an aerospace research institute in Tver, northwest of Moscow. Another blaze at a munitions factory in Perm, more than 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the east. And fires in two separate oil depots in Bryansk, near Belarus.
Coincidences, or a sign that Ukrainians or their supporters are mounting a campaign of sabotage inside Russia to punish Moscow for invading their country?
Since the blaze at the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver on April 21, which killed at least 17 people, social media has leapt on every report of a fire somewhere in Russia — especially at a sensitive location — as a sign that the country is under covert attack.
No one is claiming responsibility, but analysts say at least some of the incidents, particularly those in Bryansk, point to a possible effort by Kyiv to bring the war to the invaders.
In a post on Telegram, Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, called the fires "divine intervention."
"Large fuel depots periodically burn... for different reasons," he wrote. "Karma is a cruel thing."
‘WE DON’T DENY’
In a massive country such as Russia, a fire at a remote factory or building would normally not be particularly eyebrow-raising.
But since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, more than a dozen blazes noted by people who document the war have drawn huge attention on social media, amid fears there is a concerted campaign of arson terror by the Ukrainians.
Even fires late last month in Russia’s far east — at an airbase north of Vladivostok and at a coal plant on Sakhalin — raised suspicions.
And on Wednesday, a massive conflagration struck a chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk, east of Moscow.
"Russian saboteurs against Putin continue their heroic work," said Igor Sushko, a Ukrainian racecar driver who regularly posts photos and videos on Twitter of alleged acts of sabotage inside Russia — but offers no proof they were deliberate.
Another Zelensky adviser, Oleksei Arestovych, was equally opaque to The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , noting that Israel never admits its covert attacks and liquidations.
"We don’t confirm, and we don’t deny," he said.
PART OF THE STRATEGY?
War analysts believe the infernos in Bryansk, which hit facilities sending oil to Europe, were deliberate and tied to the war.
The anonymous analysts behind "Ukraine Weapons Tracker," a Twitter account that posts detailed accounts with supporting videos of attacks by both sides, said they had received "reliable" information that the Bryansk fires were the result of attacks by Ukrainian Bayraktar drones.
"If accurate, then this story again shows the ability of Ukrainian forces to conduct strikes in Russian territory using long-range assets," they wrote.
"I think it was probably a Ukrainian attack, but we cannot be certain," Rob Lee, another war analyst, told The Guardian.
Added to that have been a number of apparent shellings by helicopters and drones and evident acts of sabotage against infrastructure in Kursk and Belgorod Oblast on the Ukrainian border, close to the fighting.
The governors of Belgorod and Kursk have both blamed the fires and destruction of infrastructure such as railway bridges on saboteurs and attackers from Ukraine.
An April 1 attack on a Belgorod fuel depot, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel, was the result of "an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude."
"Nothing that would confirm Ukrainian sabotage, except for the fact that many of the fires seemed to hit strategic/military targets," said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Such attacks "certainly seem to be a part of their strategy," he said.
Pentagon officials have said that Russian forces inside Ukraine are hobbled by weak supply chains, and attacks on their infrastructure would further affect their war effort.
But US officials would not comment on whether, deeper inside Russia, there is an active campaign of sabotage hitting targets not-so-directly related to the invasion.
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The poor bastards are scouring the internet looking for any accident that they can call Ukraine attack against Russia.
Pathetic propaganda
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Just scouting negative fake news to attribute to Russia
April 19, 22. Barksdale Air Force Base. Explosion
April 21 22 Dyess Air Force BaseTexas Fire B-1B bomber Sabotage
April 27 Fort Bragg U.S. Army soldier killed accident
April 28 fires burning at Fort Carson Arson
April 7 22 attack on USA base in Syria. Explosion
May 9 22 soldier died at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Bear attack?
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March 26 22 Ukrainian Security Service officer defects to Russia with a USB thumb drive an entire collection of nato/USA documents copied files.
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More in here:
Here's a good firsthand testimony from a Quebecois-french canadian soldier who was fighting with sniper Wali. Very instructive for those wondering what's really happening on the ground. The Ukrainian armed forces are retreating everywhere and getting obliterated. I quote: "hell, KIA's and shitload of WIA daily"... They were in the east before the Russians picking up tempo and starting phase 2.
https://youtu.be/zN2NdiFJFh0
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The poor bastards are scouring the internet looking for any accident that they can call Ukraine attack against Russia.
That could be — we’ve discussed it here. Bad habits when storing things that can explode or catch fire too often leads to things exploding or catching fire spontaneously, a problem throughout the Muslim Middle East as well as Russia. Just think of the damage to the port of Beirut and the city beyond, just because they stored 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate incorrectly for some half decade.
But as Napoléon said, in war the morale to the matériel is as three to one (or possibly ten to one — I’ve seen it quoted both ways). If silly people are willing to ascribe all sorts of accidents to the actions of annoyed Ukrainians, merely because the Ukrainians say neither yay nor nay, perhaps it will hurry all parties toward ceasing warlike actions before more harm is done to all involved.
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[Korrespondent] 23:17 The European Commission is ready to offer Hungary compensation for the embargo on Russian oil, writes Politico.
23:16 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, at least three thousand people have died due to lack of access to treatment for chronic diseases, said the head of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Hans Kluge.
23:12 Kalush Orchestra performed in the first semi-final of Eurovision-2022:
22:58 Minsk announced a threat to territorial integrity and began exercises. Experts say Putin is once again trying to drag Lukashenka directly into the war. More about this in the material Belarus is pulling forces to Ukraine .
22:55 Zelensky: "The armed forces of our state have provided everyone with good news from the Kharkiv region. They are gradually pushing the invaders away from Kharkiv."
22:51 Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal will present a resolution calling on US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, Arakhamia said.
22:47 In the war against Ukraine, Russia is trying to destroy the Ukrainian railway infrastructure more and more. After all, the railway has become one of Kyiv's most important logistical tools - and a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. More about this in the material The fate of the war is decided by the railway .
22:42 The government continues to simplify the delivery of fuel to Ukraine, in particular from the countries of the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and Azerbaijan, Shmyhal said: "We are working to ensure that fuel appears in sufficient quantities and at the same time its price remains adequate to current realities."
22:39 Germany intends to completely and forever abandon Russian energy carriers, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said during a visit to Kiev: "We have more than clearly understood that economic dependence cannot bring security if the fate of their people is absolutely indifferent to the aggressor. And just need to reduce dependence on Russian energy carriers to zero and forever. Burbock added that all EU countries will move towards this.
22:30 Western partners of Ukraine plan to hold an online meeting of defense ministers by the end of May to speed up and coordinate the supply of weapons, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
22:27 The House of Representatives of the US Congress intends to soon approve an updated package of assistance to Ukraine for $39.8 billion, Arakhamia said, citing information "from US allies."
22:24 There are no civilians on Azovstal, Lieutenant Ilya Samoilenko from the Azov Regiment told Sky News. However, he said that the remaining Ukrainian defense forces are suffering heavy losses as the Russians continue their offensive: "The number of wounded and dead soldiers is very high, and these people deserve due care."
Samoylenko added that the defenders at the plant have "extremely limited resources" and believe that "every day could be our last."
22:19 The US state of Mississippi has recognized the Khmelnytsky region as a sister region. The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, said that for the first time in history, a US state has made such a decision.
21:53 Russia used 10 to 12 hypersonic weapons during the war in Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
21:50 Orban explained the difficulties of Hungary with the rejection of Russian oil by the fact that it does not have access to the sea, as before the Trianon peace treaty. Croatia then reminded Budapest of the inadmissibility of territorial claims.
21:47 On the evening of May 10, the border areas of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions came under fire, the State Border Service reports. Russian planes twice launched unguided missiles at the border areas of the Sumy region. There were also two shellings from mortars of the territory of the Chernihiv region from the Russian village of Novye Yurkovichi.
21:45 Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffay admitted that the partial ban on Ukrainian flags on May 8 and 9 in the city was a mistake. According to her, the police really poorly formulated their requirements and were wrong to compare the flags of Ukraine and Russia, putting them separated by commas in one sentence.
The burgomaster explained the ban on the use of symbols on 15 World War II memorials for security reasons - the city was trying to avoid provocations and clashes. Giffay also stressed that the city authorities of Berlin express their support and solidarity to Ukraine.
21:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation again claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are allegedly using "hospitals, churches, kindergartens to shelter combat units" in Mogilev-Podolsky, Vinnitsa region, in Lisichansk, in the Kharkov village of Slobozhanskoe.
21:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declares that on the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "shot six civilian cars with white flags." Also, from the area of private houses in Belaya Krinitsa, Kherson region, Ukrainian troops allegedly launched several artillery strikes on the positions of the RF Armed Forces, "in order to cause return fire on residential buildings with civilians."
"Moscow warns that in the near future the materials fabricated by Kyiv about the alleged "atrocities of the Russians" are planned to be widely distributed through the Western and Ukrainian media," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
21:27 Civilians may remain at Azovstal, and the UN is ready to organize a new evacuation operation if this information is confirmed, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General, said.
21:08 The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai reports that the Luhansk region lives without communications at all: in free settlements there is no electricity, water, gas and mobile communications.
21:06 The EU, the US, the UK and Canada accused Russia of a cyber attack against Ukraine during the start of the military invasion on February 24, 2022. A press release from the British Foreign Office clarifies that the main target was the Ukrainian military, but wind farms in Central Europe were damaged. According to Viasat, tens of thousands of terminals were damaged, disabled and beyond repair.
21:04 Russia in its attack on the Donbass and southern Ukraine is behind schedule "by two weeks, or even more," a senior Pentagon official said on condition of anonymity, writes The Guardian. According to him, the United States believes that the Russian Federation has not yet achieved any of its strategic goals in the Donbas.
20:58 The war in Ukraine has reached a dead end, Lieutenant General, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency Scott Berrier told the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces. "The Russians don't win, the Ukrainians don't win, and here we are in a stalemate," he said.
20:54 At the moment, there is neither a diplomatic nor a military opportunity to withdraw the Ukrainian military from Mariupol , Zelensky said during an appeal to the Maltese authorities. According to him, Ukraine is taking all available steps to evacuate servicemen from Azovstal, but "Russia does not agree to any of the proposed options."
20:35 Macron and Xi Jinping discussed the war in Ukraine by phone. According to the Elysee Palace, the leaders agreed that an immediate ceasefire was needed. In addition, they reaffirmed their commitment to respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, as well as their support for all humanitarian assistance efforts. The conversation between the two leaders lasted an hour and a half.
20:30 Putin is expected to take some action in the war against Ukraine. His offensive has finally loaded, there are no successes. About what to expect next - in the material, the West is wondering about the future of the war .
20:28 All assets of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine will become the property of the state , Shmyhal said.
19:59 Biden, speaking about rising prices in the US and in the world, said that they will fall after 20 million tons of grain can be taken out of Ukraine, which remain in storage due to ports blocked by Russia.
19:57 The office of the Prosecutor General announced the opening of criminal proceedings on the fact of the abduction by the Russian military of the collection of Scythian gold from the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore, discovered by archaeologists in the 50s of the last century, as well as other valuables.
Earlier, Russian media reported that the invaders in Melitopol allegedly "saved" museum exhibits, including Scythian gold, which the "intruders" were going to take to Western Ukraine. In turn, the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh said that all the most valuable exhibits were taken out of the museums of the Zaporozhye region in March 2022 to other regions of Ukraine.
19:50 Gazprom confirmed receipt of a notification from the operator of the GTS of Ukraine about the termination of transit through the GIS Sokhranivka from May 11 due to force majeure. At the same time, the Russian monopolist stressed that it is fulfilling its obligations to European consumers, delivering gas in accordance with the contract, and transit services have been paid for.
Gazprom also said that transferring volumes to the Sudzha station is technologically impossible, the distribution of volumes is specified in the cooperation agreement. According to the Russian company, Naftogaz said that if Russian gas continues to be supplied to Sokhranivka, the volumes at the points of exit from the Ukrainian GTS will be reduced accordingly.
19:44 Several strong explosions were heard in the Sumy region. According to the head of the OVA, Dmitry Zhivitsky, the Russians are hitting the Shostka district.
19:39 Eight to ten Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, CNN reports.
19:36 In Kharkiv, they plan to launch ground public transport, including trams, from next week, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said.
19:28 In Kiev, by the end of the summer, they plan to restore all the houses affected by Russian shelling, Klitschko said. According to him, the survey showed that all damaged houses can be restored.
19:20 Due to the demonstration actions to "ready for the offensive" and the activation of the Russian troops from Pridnestrovie, another two thousand volunteers are being trained, who will defend the Odessa region if necessary, OK Pivden reported.
19:17 In Ukraine, they plan to freeze tariffs for utilities for the period of the war. The Cabinet of Ministers will send the relevant proposal to the Rada for consideration, Shmyhal said.
19:04 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the 138th separate mechanized brigade of the 6th combined arms army of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation were withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine to the Belgorod region due to significant losses in the Kharkiv region. A significant part of the remaining personnel of the military service under the contract wrote reports for dismissal.
18:59 Putin is likely to declare martial law in Russia against the backdrop of an unsuccessful "special operation" in Ukraine, according to the head of the US National Intelligence Avril Haynes. According to her, the head of the Kremlin is ready to use "more radical means", up to and including martial law. The goal is to free up the resources necessary for successful operations in the war. Also, Putin can provoke a war in Transnistria.
18:50 Zelensky addressed the Parliament and the people of Malta: "Just as the fate of Europe depended on the steadfastness and courage of Malta in 1940-1942, today it depends on the stamina and courage of Ukrainians whether freedom wins on our continent. Because we are again opposed tyranny, and it has very far-reaching ambitions. By attacking Ukraine, Russia has just begun its aggression against a united Europe."
18:48 Ukraine is forced from May 11 to stop gas transit through the Sokhranivka gas metering station and the Novopskov border compressor station in the Luhansk region, which ended up in the territory occupied by Russia. Through this point, a third of the gas is supplied to Europe, said the Operator of the State Customs Service.
Moreover, the intervention of the occupiers in technological processes, changes in the operating modes of GTS facilities, including unauthorized gas extraction, jeopardized the stability and safety of the entire Ukrainian gas transmission system, the OGTS stressed.
In order to fulfill transit obligations to European partners, it is possible to temporarily transfer inaccessible capacities from the physical point of Sokhrovka to the Sudzha point, which is located on the territory controlled by Ukraine.
18:26 According to the UN, due to the war, more than 8 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons. In total, almost 13.7 million Ukrainians left their homes. More than 5.6 million people have left Ukraine, 2.7 million have returned from abroad since the beginning of the war. Compared to data for March 17, the number of internally displaced persons has increased by 24%.
18:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region liberated the settlements of Cherkasy Tishki, Russian Tishki, Rubizhne and Bayrak , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
17:49 Burbock said that the future of Ukraine is in the EU: "It is now clear to me that Ukraine is clearly a part of Europe, and therefore I understand very well Ukraine's application for EU membership - full membership. We insist on Ukraine's full membership in the European Union ".
The head of the German Foreign Ministry also said that after Russia's open attack on Ukraine, compromises and mutual understanding with the current Russian Federation are impossible.
17:46 The General Assembly elected the Czech Republic to the UN Human Rights Council after Russia was expelled from the HRC.
17:39 Inflation in Ukraine in April amounted to 3.1%, and since the beginning of the year prices have risen by 10.9%. The annual rate is 16.4%, the State Statistics Service reported. Foodstuffs in April rose in price by 4.2%, alcohol and tobacco - by 4.8%.
17:30 The occupiers continued to clear the rubble of the Drama Theater in Mariupol. In connection with the mass refusal of Mariupol residents to take part in this, workers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation were involved in the analysis, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. According to local residents, packages with the bodies of the dead continue to be taken out by tractor carriages.
"The worst thing is that we will never know the true number of dead. Russia hides the traces of its own crimes very quickly," Andryushchenko wrote.
17:24 Zelensky held a meeting with German Foreign Ministers Annalena Berbock and the Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra.
17:18 In Kiev, as a result of Russian aggression, a total of 390 buildings were damaged, of which 222 were apartment buildings, Klitschko said. According to him, 20 houses have already been identified, where it is necessary to start restoration work first of all, so that people can return faster. The approximate cost of these works will be 5.8 million euros.
The mayor also said that as a result of shelling and bombing, 75 educational institutions were damaged in the capital, of which 30 were preschool, 17 healthcare institutions, and 11 cultural institutions. The estimated cost of restoring all buildings in the capital is more than 70 million euros.
17:13 The Azov Regiment showed the conditions in which the wounded Ukrainian military are located at Azovstal, and called for urgent organization of their evacuation:
17:08 The Russians for the fourth time hit the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odessa region, the Pivden operational command reported.
17:07 The Russian Foreign Ministry is again threatening Finland because of its intention to join NATO. Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Grushko said that the Russian military will react to the country's entry into the alliance: "It is clear that from the point of view of security, we will not remain indifferent. Our military will consider all necessary measures that will be required to ensure the legitimate interests of defense."
16:59 American intelligence believes that Putin is preparing for a protracted conflict in Ukraine, said the Director of National Intelligence of the United States, Avril Haynes. According to her, even a Russian victory in the Donbass will not end the war, and there are signs that the Russian Federation wants to expand the land bridge in Transnistria.
Haynes noted that Washington now does not see a "viable negotiating path" to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, moreover, in the next few months, a "more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory" could be observed on the territory of Ukraine.
16:53 Germany is gradually resuming the work of the embassy in Kiev, Annalena Burbock said. She clarified that the embassy will open with a minimal presence of diplomats and will work in a limited format, but headed by Ambassador Anka Feldhusen.
16:49 A telegram bot has been launched in Ukraine to collect information about Russian assets. This is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and People's Deputy, member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Galina Yanchenko. With the help of the @RuAssetsBot bot, anyone who has information about the assets of sanctioned Russians in Ukraine can report them to the competent authorities. In the future, this will help confiscate assets to restore the economy and compensate for losses to citizens and businesses.
16:36 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said that Bucha has become a symbol of atrocities, and the world must do everything to ensure that those responsible are justly punished. The minister shared on Twitter that the tragedy of Buchi seems far away until you find yourself in the middle of this ordinary peaceful town, in the place of which any other could be: "It could be my family, my neighbors. The lawlessness is overwhelming."
Burbock also promised that Germany would provide all the support necessary for the investigation - financial, political and professional.
16:33 Germany plans to supply Ukraine with modern tanks and howitzers, and in parallel will begin training the Ukrainian military, Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said during a visit to Kiev.
16:12 Prices for meat and eggs in many countries of the world may grow by 20-30% in the near future, Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solsky has warned. According to him, this will be caused by a shortage of Ukrainian grain on world markets.
16:10 German citizens collected a record 752 million euros to help Ukraine, according to the Central Institute for Social Problems at the end of April. The previous record was 670 million euros. Then the Germans collected aid for the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004.
16:06 Governors are leaving en masse in Russia. The media only today reported on the resignation of their powers by the heads of the Saratov, Kirov and Tomsk regions. Also, the decision to leave his post was announced by the head of the Republic of Mari El.
16:04 The occupiers are going to launch a repair base for military equipment at the Mariupol Iron and Steel Works named after Ilyich. According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, for this they urge the plant workers to come to the enterprise on May 12. However, there are not many people in the city who want to work for the invaders.
16:00 In the liberated settlements of the Kharkiv region, dozens of corpses of Russian soldiers are found, which their colleagues did not take with them. Bodies lie on the streets, in houses and in landfills, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov.
15:59 Russian troops are firing at Odessa every day, but on May 9 there were much more missile strikes. About what this may be connected with - in the material Revenge of the invaders .
15:48 The General Staff of Belarus stated that "the creation of a 20,000-strong group of Ukrainian troops requires a reaction," Minsk is deploying special operations forces as part of the check.
15:47 The curfew has been reduced in the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to the head of the regional administration Valentin Reznichenko, from today it will operate from 23:00 to 5:00.
15:46 In Mariupol, another 100,000 people who remain in the city are waiting for evacuation, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said.
15:44 The ban on the transportation of Russian oil is no longer included in the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, writes DPA, citing a source.
15:39 Severodonetsk was left without gas - the Russian military killed the main gas pipeline, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
15:37 In Kiev, public transport fares will be returned, Klitschko said. He promised that the pay would remain at pre-war levels.
15:12 More than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers are now at Azovstal, hundreds of them are wounded, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said in a comment to AFP.
15:10 Investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation completed the investigation into the case of Ilya Kiva. He was put on the international wanted list, and the case should be considered by the court. Kivu is accused of high treason, propaganda of war, calls for the seizure of power and distribution of communist symbols.
15:08 Zelensky, in an address to the people and politicians of Slovakia, stressed the need to increase pressure on Russia - "until we see that victory has been achieved." He also said that a donor conference to mobilize assistance to Ukraine will be held in Bratislava in June, and thanked the organizers.
15:04 During May 9, the invaders deported 400 people from Mariupol, including 70 children, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
14:53 In Pologi, Zaporozhye region, grain and sunflower seeds, which are in storage, are being prepared for transportation to the Russian Federation. Also, for this purpose, the harvest is withdrawn. From Energodar in the direction of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, under the protection of the military, a convoy of Russian KAMAZ and DAF trucks loaded with grain left. The final destination of the column is Crimea, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
In the village of Volokhov Yar, Kharkiv region, collaborators help the occupiers to take grain out of the hangars. Grain carriers are sent to the Russian border. From Malaya Lepetikha, Kherson region, 1,500 tons of grain were transported by grain carriers to the Crimea. There is also information that, in addition to grain, the occupiers are exporting to Crimea large volumes of vegetables stolen in Ukraine - beets, potatoes, cabbage.
It is known that a significant part of the grain stolen in Ukraine is on dry cargo ships under the Russian flag in the Mediterranean Sea. The most likely destination country is Syria. From there, grain can be smuggled to other countries in the Middle East.
14:46 Putin is forcing Lukashenko to strike in the direction of Lutsk-Lviv in order to cut off the supply of weapons from the West, military expert Oleg Zhdanov said. Another meeting of the two dictators is expected to take place soon.
14:32 Hungarian Ambassador to Ukraine Istvan Iydjarto assured that Budapest will not block Ukraine's membership in the EU.
14:21 As a result of Russian shelling of Azovstal, there are seriously wounded, the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, captain Svyatoslav Palamar, told the UE. He said that aviation was working on the hospital, for a while the defenders lost contact with him. Now communication has been restored, there are many wounded, they urgently need evacuation.
14:07 The head of the Sumy OVA, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that the Belopolsky bulk was fired from multiple rocket launchers located on the territory of Russia. There are no losses, damage is specified.
13:54 Belarus has announced the second stage of checking the rapid reaction forces. As Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said, this is a response to NATO exercises.
13:38 The command of the National Guard of Ukraine declares that the president and the leadership of the state are working on applying the extraction procedure to the Ukrainian military in Azovstal - that is, export to a third country. It is not yet possible to voice the details, clarified at NSU.
13:31 In Ukraine, gasoline can be bought at 40 hryvnia per liter, and diesel - no more than 43 hryvnia, the team of First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko promises.
13:22 US urges to prevent a frozen conflict in Ukraine, senior adviser to the US Congress Paul Massaro said: "Putin seems to want to turn his genocidal war into a frozen conflict in Ukraine. We cannot allow this. Do not lose focus. The goal is total victory Ukrainians".
13:15 Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra is on a visit to Ukraine and has already visited Irpin. In his Twitter, he said that today he and Foreign Minister Germanni Annalena Berbock are scheduled to meet with members of the Ukrainian government. Burbock, in turn, has already visited Bucha.
13:07 The National Bank allowed Ukrainians from May 10 to transfer funds abroad to pay alimony. At the same time, it is temporarily prohibited to make settlements abroad in order to purchase securities and pay for brokerage services.
13:06 The occupiers are taking equipment out of Kremennaya hospitals and schools to Russia or Luhansk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians are shocked by the equipment of Ukrainian hospitals, so in the very first days of the occupation they began to dismantle and remove the equipment.
12:55 Kindergarten teachers and bankers from Donetsk are forced to go to Mariupol. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the heads of kindergartens in Donetsk received an order to select personnel to be sent to Mariupol and nearby settlements - Mangush, Nikolskoye, Yalta. Bank personnel are selected in a similar way.
This movement of personnel is connected with the distrust of the occupation administrations towards the local population. The mass departure of personnel to the territory controlled by Ukraine and the refusal to cooperate with the occupying authorities also affect. It is known that the personnel who are being prepared for transfer to other regions strongly oppose such a decision. Some are threatening to be fired.
12:28 The Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera showed a refrigerated car with the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. The footage shows the remains of Russian uniforms and labels from bulletproof vests made in the Russian Federation. Officially, the Russian side did not turn to Ukraine to take the bodies of their dead.
12:20 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock arrived in Kiev on the morning of May 10, Süddeutsche Zeitung writes.
12:18 The US issued two $1 silver bullion coins with Ukrainian symbols. According to the NBU Museum of Money, the coins depict Ukrainian national symbols, perpetuating the courageous resistance against the Russian occupiers and the desire to defend their independence.
12:09 The bodies of the killed invaders are being taken to a landfill near Donetsk, where there are already so many of them that the mountains of corpses reach two meters in height. This is evidenced by new telephone conversations of the invaders, which the SBU managed to intercept. According to the occupant, the landfill is fenced, no one is allowed in there. And the guards earn a lot of money because they help relatives find the bodies of the dead there.
12:07 The Seimas of Lithuania has unanimously recognized Russia as a terrorist state. The decision was made in connection with the numerous war crimes of the Russian invaders in Ukraine. The atrocities of the invaders have all the signs of an organized genocide, the adopted resolution says.
11:48 The McFaul-Yermak international expert group has developed a roadmap for energy sanctions against Russia. The document contains recommendations for policy actions that will allow Russia to deprive Russia of this income, while minimizing disruptions to markets and the global economy, Yermak said.
11:42 The people of Kiev have chosen new names for metro stations. More than 170 thousand people expressed their position. In the near future, documents will be prepared for consideration of the decision on renaming by deputies of the Kyiv City Council. According to citizens:
Beresteyskaya station should become Buchanskaya,
station Leo Tolstoy Square should be renamed Vasily Stus,
Heroes of the Dnieper - in Heroes of Ukraine,
Minsk should become Warsaw,
Friendship of Peoples - Botanical.
11:26 Greece resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev.
11:23 The Azov Regiment reports that over the past day, 34 sorties of aircraft were made to the territory of the Azovstal plant, including eight sorties of strategic bombers. Enemy ship and cannon artillery, MLRS, UR-77, tanks, etc. also do not stop working. The enemy does not stop trying to capture the plant and continues to make daily assaults with the support of infantry.
11:07 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the "LPR People's Militia" with the support of the Russian military, "having completed the cleansing of Popasna and breaking through the enemy's defense in depth, reached the administrative border of the" LPR ".
11:06 The EU is considering a plan for the long-term recovery of Ukraine, which provides for hundreds of billions of euros, writes Bloomberg. Kyiv's financial needs package is to be considered in May.
11:05 If Ukraine does not receive the status of a candidate for EU membership, this means that Europe is trying to deceive us, Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times. "And we are not going to tolerate it," the Foreign Minister added.
11:01 Dissatisfaction with the new "authority" is growing in Mariupol. As Petr Andryushchenko said, Mariupol residents, accustomed to democracy, are increasingly openly expressing dissatisfaction and leaving complaints about the actions of Ivashchenko and Kharmyshev in Pushilin's office.
In particular, residents of the city are outraged by the exchange rate of the ruble, which in Mariupol is 1.7-1.8 hryvnia per ruble (in Donetsk - 2.2). "Apparently, the budgets received from Russia to finance the occupational propaganda have already been 'used' without result, with a big failure. And this is already getting to someone in Russia," writes an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
He also spoke about the unexpectedly low level of collaboration, in particular in the field of education. Despite the announced opening of a second school, kindergarten and gymnasium No. 2, the occupation authorities still cannot find teachers.
10:51 In Mariupol, the "celebration" on May 9 was moved to the Primorsky district due to the fact that the invaders could not cope with the blockages in the center - because of the refusal of Mariupol residents to work for food, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said. Promptly launched advertising from the "mayor" Ivashchenko to work for a salary did not work.
He also said that Russian journalists and bloggers were forced to radically crop the video and overlay music to show at least something. Even the "restoration of the Komsolets" on the memorial and the return of the Soviet names of the Liberators' Warriors Square and st. Grushevsky did not give the expected effect of euphoria. There were practically no people at the "celebration".
10:32 Russia, under the influence of military failures, is changing its propaganda. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the heads of the Kremlin TV channels, Internet media and the pro-Putin army of bots are already being instructed to move to a new information policy.
In order to change the perception of Russians about military "invincibility" and prepare society for possible defeat, the Russian media were ordered to talk about the Russian-Ukrainian war as an armed confrontation between Russia and all EU and NATO countries. According to Kremlin political technologists, this will reduce the shame of losing to a stronger opponent. The propagandists of the occupying country will now tell the Russians about the need to unite for the sake of their own survival and blind trust in the policies of the Kremlin.
10:27 Russia now mainly uses X-22 missiles - an old Soviet product from the 60s, as well as Daggers - a modern hypersonic missile from MiG-31 aircraft. The use of the most ancient (and dangerous) and the most modern missiles at the same time shows that the Russian Federation has begun to save high-precision missiles, Arestovich said.
According to the adviser to the head of the OP, this means that there will be more misses and, accordingly, hits on residential areas (X-22), and there will also be more hits on selected targets (Dagger) without the ability to intercept (hypersonic missiles are not intercepted).
"The combination of accurate hits on the one hand and more frequent cases of destruction of residential areas on the other will give a media, and therefore a psychological picture of mass missile terror. It, in turn, will give rise to the effect of the inability of the ZSU to resist the enemy in this regard and will push hysterical breakdowns in the public mind ", - Arestovich writes and urges not to succumb to "zrada", since the effect of a missile war is designed precisely for this.
10:21 The US House of Representatives may pass a financial aid plan for Ukraine today, its amount has increased from $33 to $40 billion, Reuters reports, citing two congressional sources.
10:20 In Izyum, the bodies of 44 dead civilians were removed from under the rubble of a five-story building, the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov said. The house collapsed in early March, when fighting was going on outside the city. Now Izyum is under Russian control.
10:14 According to the EBRD forecast, the fall in Ukraine's GDP in 2022 could be 30%, which is much worse than the bank's March expectations (a drop of 20%).
10:12 Ukraine is changing its idea of victory in the current war , Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times . Now it is presented not as a withdrawal of Russian troops to positions until February 24, 2022, but as a complete liberation of all Ukrainian territories.
10:11 In Kiev this morning, there has been a deterioration in air quality, in particular in Svyatoshinsky, Obolonsky and Podolsky districts. Klitschko said that this is due to the ongoing elimination of fires in the ecosystems of the Kyiv region. In particular, peat bogs are smoldering in the Buchansk region.
10:09 Explosions will be heard in Poltava on May 10-13. The head of the OVA, Dmitry Lunin, warned that practice firing was planned these days from 08:00 to 14:00, and urged local residents not to panic.
10:07 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that in Belogorivka, the territory is being cleared of the invaders who crossed the river: the pontoons and all their equipment have already been destroyed, about 80 Russians have ended up on the shore, "the hunt continues, a little bit remains."
There are also battles in the villages of the Mountain Community, the line of defense is stable, there are no breakthroughs. Voevodka is completely under Ukrainian control. In Rubezhnoye, the Russians also did not advance. Rescuers are waiting for silence to finally get people out of the rubble in Belogorovka and Shipilovo. Mobile communications in the area are intermittent.
According to Gaidai, the goal of the Russians remains the same - to cut off the Luhansk region from other regions, to close the road along which evacuation takes place and humanitarian supplies are brought in.
09:50 In Odessa, as a result of a rocket fire, the Riviera shopping center was destroyed, people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
09:41 Germany and Qatar cannot agree on key conditions for the supply of liquefied gas. Disputes are ongoing about the timing of contacts and the possibility of transferring the supplied gas to other countries, Reuters reports, citing three informed sources.
09:29 Ex-commander of the Azov Regiment Maxim Zhorin told Channel 24 that the military is preparing an operation to de-blockade Mariupol: "In addition to the diplomatic process, there is still a process to prepare a military operation to de-blockade the city. liberated by other cities, regrouping".
True, according to him, a lot of time is needed to prepare for this operation, and it is not a fact that "those who are now on the territory of Azovstal have this time."
09:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 10. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdiivka direction.
personnel - about 26,000 (+350) people liquidated,
tanks - 1170 (+25),
armored combat vehicles - 2808 (+44),
artillery systems - 519 (+6),
MLRS - 185 (+0),
air defense systems - 87 (+0),
aircraft - 199 (+0),
helicopters - 158 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 380 (+3),
cruise missiles - 94 (+0),
ships/boats - 12 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1980 (+10),
special equipment - 41 (+0).
09:21 Media reports that Rutube video hosting cannot be restored. According to a source close to the Rutube team at The Village, the attack began yesterday around 5 am, as a result of the actions of the hackers, the site's code was "completely removed."
09:16 Sanctions against Russia are beginning to work for their main purpose and harm the military-industrial base, the Pentagon said: "We saw that they used a lot of precision weapons. They continue to hit Mariupol with a bunch of unguided bombs. Therefore, they have problems with precision-guided munitions. We believe that sanctions and export controls, especially when it comes to electronic components, have had an impact."
08:45 British intelligence notes that Russia's underestimation of Ukraine's resistance and its "best-case" planning led to apparent operational errors, preventing Putin from declaring a significant military success in Ukraine at the May 9 parade.
Analysts believe the Russian invasion plan was based on the mistaken assumption that it would meet limited resistance and be able to quickly encircle and bypass populated areas. This assumption prompted RF forces to attempt to conduct the initial phase of the operation in a manner designed to achieve a quick victory at minimal cost. This miscalculation led to exorbitant losses and the subsequent weakening of Russia's operational concentration.
08:28 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that between Liman and Severodonetsk, Russia has expanded the zone of control in the Yampol-Kremennaya-Belogorovka triangle. Belogorivka goes to the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway - the only road that allows you to leave the Lugansk region and supply the APU grouping in the Severodonetsk agglomeration.
The Russians plan to surround Severodonetsk and Rubizhne from the west and continue to move towards the border of the Donetsk region. It is also confirmed that the Russians moved closer to Azovstal north of the plant.
08:20 The authorities of the South Bohemian city of Ceske Budejovice have deprived the status of an honorary citizen of the city of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova because of her support for the war in Ukraine, local media reported.
08:14 Borrell said that the EU is not fighting against Russia, but protecting Ukraine: “I don’t like the story of“ the West against Russia ”or“ the West against the rest ”at all ... This is a question about the UN Charter. We are talking about the sovereignty of states, respect for borders and not using force to suppress our neighbor. We are not at war against Russia. We are defending Ukraine. And defending Ukraine means defending the rules-based international order. Otherwise, it will be the law of the jungle."
07:42 In the Izyum direction, the Russian army replenishes ammunition, fuel and is preparing for an attack on Liman and Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Over the past day, the villages of Bolshaya Pisarevka, Belopolye, Krasnopolye and Yunakovka of the Sumy region were fired from MLRS.
The possibility of carrying out sabotage at the facilities of the chemical industry of Ukraine with the subsequent accusation of subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not ruled out.
07:28 The first plane with refugees from Ukraine, paid by the government, arrived in Canada. 165 people arrived on the island of Newfoundland from Poland, including 55 children. This is the first air bridge flight that Canada has opened for Ukrainians. Canada adopted the program for the reception of Ukrainian refugees in mid-April, according to which 19 thousand people have already moved to the country.
07:11 Biden believes that Putin has become a hostage of the war, he can no longer get out of the war with Ukraine.
06:39 Japan has imposed new sanctions against Russia - 133 people and 70 companies have been added to the list. In particular, restrictions were imposed on the Russian Prime Minister Mishustin, the leaders of the "LDNR" and others. Also under the sanctions were companies associated with the Russian defense sector, among them the Almaz-Antey concern.
04:31 The White House called Putin's speech at the May 9 parade to Moscow "a lie and an absurdity."
03:42 Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko announced that Poland is ready to ensure the delivery of more than 200 thousand tons of fuel per month from its ports. We are talking about deliveries from the ports of Gdansk or Swinoujscie. Over the past month, according to Sviridenko, Ukraine imported 60,000 tons of fuel.
01:57 On the evening of May 9, Russia fired seven missiles at Odessa using aviation. As a result, one person died, five wounded were taken to the hospital, said Natalya Gumenyuk, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces. The rockets hit the shopping center and the warehouse of finished products.
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[RIA Novosti] In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian military staged a provocation by shooting six civilian vehicles, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center.
"According to the available reliable information, in the Kharkiv region, the Kyiv regime carried out another bloody action according to the Bucha scenario. On the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot six civilian vehicles with white flags mounted on them," Mizintsev said.
According to him, the photo and video recording was carried out by the specialists of the Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, the general noted, from the area of private households in Belaya Krinitsa ( Kherson region ), Ukrainian artillery launched several attacks on the positions of Russian troops in order to cause return fire on houses with civilians, whom the terrorist defense militants did not let out of the blockaded settlement, keeping them in as a human shield.
He added that representatives of the Norwegian media were there to film the aftermath.
“We warn in advance that in the near future these and other materials fabricated by the Kyiv regime about the alleged “Russian atrocities” are planned to be widely distributed through Western and Ukrainian media, as well as Internet resources,” Mizintsev said.
Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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So reading between the lines, the Russian forces shot up a bunch of civilian cars, and are rushing a Katyn Forest story out ahead of Ukrainian reporting.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 US Congress intends to approve $39.8 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine today - Tuesday - The New York Times
21:47 According to the available reliable information, in the Kharkiv region, the Kyiv regime carried out another bloody action according to the "Buchin" scenario. On the section of the road between the settlements of Stary and Novy Saltov, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down six civilian vehicles with white flags mounted on them. Photo and video filming of this monstrous crime was carried out by specialists of the Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. 21:46 The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, has died. This was reported by the Ukrainian News agency, citing a source close to the politician's family.
"Today, May 10, 2022, at 17:00 Kyiv time, after a long illness, Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, passed away," the message said.
21:45 The supply of electricity to the Kharkiv region of Ukraine from the territory of the Belgorod region began. This was reported by the press service of the government of the Russian region.
20:50 Rocket troops and artillery of the Russian Federation hit 223 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, more than 100 nationalists were destroyed.
20:49 Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and a Mi-8 helicopter in the Kherson region.
20:49 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces hit two warehouses of missile and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 70 objects in a day.
20:48 The mindless PR campaign of the Kyiv regime to seize the Zmeiny Island on the eve of Victory Day ended in disaster for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:48 In the area of Snake Island, three Ukrainian assault boats "Centaur" with amphibious assault troops on board were destroyed.
20:47 Bodies of 27 militants of Ukrainian special forces and nationalists remain on Zmeiny Island.
19:59 Ukraine's attempt to seize Serpent's Island was pointless from a military point of view.
19:58 In three days, the Kyiv regime lost 30 military drones near Zmeiny Island, nine of them were Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones.
19:58 Another Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle "Bayraktar-TB2" was shot down by means of air defense of the Russian Federation in the area of Snake Island this afternoon.
19:56 Another Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle "Bayraktar-TB2" was destroyed by Russian air defense systems this afternoon in the area of Snake Island. Thus, over the past three days, the Kyiv regime has lost 30 military unmanned aerial vehicles in the area.
18:34 Russian mobile operators will work in the Kherson region. Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the region's CAA, said: "Mobile operators are now negotiating and in the coming months, cellular operators in Russia and other regions are also ready to enter the territory of Kherson and the Kherson region and fully set up communications." According to him, a Crimean Internet provider is already operating in the region.
18:33 Army aviation of the "O" group inflicts massive strikes on Ukrainian militants during the attack on Kramatorsk.
17:35 Berlin will supply Ukraine with modern tanks and howitzers, and will also begin training Ukrainian military - German Foreign Minister Burbock .
“We are now trying to find shells from those countries that can supply them for the Cheetahs. The next step will be the supply of tanks and howitzers,” Burbock said.
17:33 Belarus expects to keep the Russian S-400 air defense systems and the Iskander-Lukashenko complexes.
17:32 Russia's victory in Donbas will not put an end to the special operation - head of US National Intelligence.
16:49 Russia appreciates the balanced, objective, balanced position taken by Algeria on Ukrainian issues - Lavrov
16:45 Belarus urgently deploys special operations forces on the border with Ukraine - General Staff of the country's Ministry of Defense
“The grouping created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction, numbering up to 20,000 people, requires a reaction from Belarus,” the department noted.
At the second stage of the Armed Forces of Belarus, battalion tactical groups are moving forward to the western and northwestern directions, the Ministry of Defense specified.
15:26 Residents of the northern regions of Crimea are asked not to worry about the sounds of explosions in the liberated territories of the Kherson region. This is the detonation of Ukrainian shells and mines, which were collected by Russian sappers at the sites of clashes or found in trophy military depots, as well as in various caches.
15:24 On Victory Alley on the street. Pionerskaya in Melitopol organized regular watering of young seedlings. A total of 40 young trees were brought from Crimea and planted on the eve of Victory Day.
15:23 Municipal services of Melitopol putting the city in order after the holiday. Kirov Street and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, squares and Gorky Park are being cleaned.
15:23 NATO summit in July will consider measures to strengthen security in the light of the situation in Ukraine, said Scholz.
14:30 An explosion thundered in Ochakovo, smoke is rising over the place of the explosion. In this city in the Nikolaev region, a rocket is expected to arrive. Also explosions have thundered in the Nikolaev.
13:41 Russia will help Belarus to produce new missiles for the rearmament of the Belarusian Army. Including the Belarusian military will receive Iskanders.
13:36 New arrivals in Nikolaev and Ochakov have been recorded.
12:54 German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. According to Focus Online, upon arrival she visited Bucha.
12:52 Head of UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Says She Has Credible Allegations of Torture and Executions by Ukrainian Security Forces, Although Russia's Violations are 'Much Higher' - Reuters.
12:46 The Seimas of Lithuania recognized the Russian Federation as a “terrorist state”.
11:22 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 163 aircraft, 124 helicopters, 793 unmanned aerial vehicles, 300 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,979 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 351 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,440 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,789 units of special military vehicles.
11:21 Russian air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the night in the areas of the settlements of Mospino, Yunokommunarsk of the Donetsk People's Republic and the city of Odessa. A Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and a Smerch multiple rocket launcher were intercepted over the settlement of Khartsyzsk in the Donetsk People's Republic. Two more rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the areas of Malaya Kamyshevakhi and Izyum in the Kharkiv region.
11:20 On the evening of May 9, during an air battle near the village of Novaya Dmitrovka, Kharkiv region, a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down.
11:20 Rocket troops and artillery units hit 33 command posts, 407 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as five ammunition and fuel depots in the areas of Nikolaev and Mirny of the Nikolaev region. As a result of the strikes, up to 380 nationalists were destroyed, 53 units of military equipment were disabled.
11:20 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 16 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine overnight.
10:26 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zelenodolsk.
10:24 Russian sappers have completed demining the village of Kamenka, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region, mined by Ukrainian troops before retreating. This was reported on Tuesday to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“Russian sappers conducted engineering reconnaissance and cleared the area of explosive objects in the area of the village of Kamenka, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region,” the military department said.
The ministry said that before the retreat, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the streets and roads in the vicinity of the village.
“In the course of humanitarian demining, Russian sappers found artillery and tank shells, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, including foreign-made ones. At the same time, military engineers cleared the farmland. Agricultural machinery can go into the fields without fear of being blown up by a mine "barrier," the Defense Ministry added.
09:32 In the morning, the Dnipropetrovsk region was shelled by Ukronazis. There were no casualties.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received over the current day about the death of two civilians: men born in 1955. and women born in 1937, during the shelling of the Kyiv region of Donetsk.
Nine civilians received injuries of varying severity:
Donetsk, Kirovsky district:
- men: 1969, 1967, 1973;
- a woman born in 1951.
Donetsk, Kievsky district:
— girl born in 2013;
- men: born in 1954, 1983, 1972;
is a woman born in 1958.
Thus, the total number of victims among civilians from the attacks of the VFU on May 10, 2022 is 11 people: two dead and nine injured.
In addition, a civilian born in 1973 applied for medical help to the Yasinovatskaya Central District Hospital. injured during the shelling of the city on May 8, 2022. 21:08 The UN is ready to organize further evacuation from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol if the presence of civilians there is confirmed, but there is no information on specific plans yet. This was stated on Tuesday at a briefing by Deputy Representative of the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq.
“[UN-Ukraine] humanitarian coordinator Osnat Lubrani said yesterday [Monday] that there could still be civilians at the plant,” he said. — We made every effort to evacuate people from the territory of Azovstal. About 600 people have been evacuated in recent days. If we find out that there are still people at the plant, we will do our best to evacuate them.”
19:53 Consequences of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk 10.05.2022
Military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC confirmed the fact of use by the enemy of multiple launch rocket systems BM-27 "Hurricane" with cluster munitions 9M27K in the residential area of the Kievsky district of the capital from the direction of their positions located in the area of the settlement. Avdievka. The area of responsibility of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Kurash Evgeny Yurievich; commander of the jet division - Uralev Alexander Vladimirovich).
As a result of shelling by the VFU of the Kyiv region, two people died and five, incl. girl born in 2013, were injured.
Also fixeddamageat the addresses:
- st. Levitsky, 5, 9 - multi-apartment residential buildings;
- st. Artema, 102 "a", 108 - multi-apartment residential buildings;
- st. Panfilova, 1 "a" - an apartment building;
- st. Zoya Kosmodemyanskoy, 1 - apartment building;
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 204 - apartment building;
- st. Artema, 106 - republican trauma center;
- st. Universitetskaya, 94 - boarding school No. 11;
- st. Universitetskaya, 87 - filling station "Dontoplivo";
- st. Universitetskaya, 87 "a" - Central Republican Bank of the DPR.
19:28 Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation help the services of Mariupol to dismantle the rubble of destroyed high-rise buildings.
Several departments operate throughout the city. Garbage and collapsed structures on trucks are taken out of Mariupol for disposal.
19:14 The Leningrad region of the Russian Federation will help the authorities of Yenakiyevo in restoring the city.
"The Leningrad region took patronage over Yenakiyevo. Now a delegation from the region is in the city, they have almost finished familiarizing themselves with all areas of the city's activities: culture, education, housing and communal services - everything that concerns the life of our city. We made a plan of priority steps, what we need to do in the city now, and what can be postponed for the long term," said Roman Khramenkov, head of the city administration.
18:54 Ukrainian punishers fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine treacherously fired at apartment buildings, as well as shopping malls in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
As a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured
17:14 Consequences of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on 05/09/2022.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC shelling in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, it was carried out using multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad", from the direction of the positions of the VFU located in the area of the settlement. Nevelskoe. Responsibility area of the 54th Sseparate Mechanized Brigade (commander - Colonel Maistrenko Alexei Sergeevich; commander of the jet division - Lieutenant Colonel Popov Denis Vladimirovich).
As a result of shelling by VFU in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on the street. Petrovsky, 126 "D",diedteenager born in 2006 Morenine civilians, including a girl born in 2007, were injured.
Fixed damage to the addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, d. 126 "D" - an apartment building;
- per. Stasovoy, d. 3 "B" - medical laboratory;
- st. Flotskaya, 32 - a private residential building;
- st. Afanasiev, d. 2 - a private residential building;
- st. Seregina, d. 1 "A" - a private residential building;
In addition, containers No. 37, No. 40, No. 38-partially, No. 39 were completely destroyed by shrapnel at the Mercury market.
16:30 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received refined information about the death of three civilians as a result of shelling by the VFU Kievsky district of Donetsk: a woman born in 1937 and two men whose personal details are being established.
Also, at the moment, information has been received about the wounding of three civilians: girls born in 2013, men born in 1954. and a woman whose year of birth is being established.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
16:07 To date, 13 fire and rescue units have been created in Mariupol, Volnovakha, Khlebodarovka, Novotroitsky, Mangush, Yalta, Volodarsky and Talakovka - DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations
Only in Mariupol there are already six fire and rescue units. The personnel performs the tasks for their intended purpose in full.
More than 400 rescuers from eight liberated settlements have already transferred to serve in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:04 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Lidievka settlement):
- st. Ashkhabadskaya, 2/1, 2 - a direct hit on the roof of a private residential building.
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 204 - apartment building;
- st. Levitskogo 7/10 - apartment building
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Kirova, 90 - a private residential building;
- st. Lenina, 187 - store "Bogdan".
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:25 Humanitarian aid delivered to Novoazovsk from Volgograd
For residents of the Republic, as well as refugees, they brought food packages, personal hygiene items and building materials to restore the destruction.
14:10 As a result of shelling of the VFU in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, the number of victims increased to seven people: two people died and five were injured, including a child.
13:22 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of another civilian, born in 1951. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Thus, at the moment, the number of victims among civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk is 3 people.
Information about damage was also received at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 109, apt. 118 - multi-apartment residential building;
- st. Tekstilshchikov, 7, apt. 37 - an apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
13:03 Another massive strike on the Kirovsky district.
Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
11:00 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kirov district): five missiles were fired from the BM27 "Hurricane".
Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
12:35 — n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 5 shells of 152 mm caliber were fired.
12:43 VFU attacked Vasilievka
As a result of the shelling on the street. Central house building caught fire.
Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
12:42 DPR servicemen inspect abandoned weapons at the broken positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka - machine guns, machine guns with Ukrainian symbols, as well as American shells.
"During the assault on the position, a small fraction of what was found was American. Again, we are lucky to have for American utensils," one of the fighters said.
12:10 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of two civilians - men born in 1969. and born in 1967 as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
There were also reports of damage as a result ofshellingVFU Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 132 - apartment building;
- st. Leninabadskaya, 21, 46 - private residential buildings;
- st. Makharadze, 12 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:44 Units of the NM LPR during a special military operation continue advancement deep into the territories of the Republic occupied by neo-Nazi formations of Ukraine.
Denazification and demilitarization continues.
11:30 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Petrovsky, 107 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Petrovsky 107, 107 "in", 113, 134, 136 - a fire was recorded in apartment buildings.
Also recorded the ignition of trade containers on the street. Petrovsky.
According to preliminary information, there are victims.
Information was received about the damage to the boiler house as a result of the night shelling of the VFU in Donetsk at the address: st. air, 1.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operation group of the JCCC of the DPR, who were at the site of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of the capital, the enemy used multiple launch rocket systems of the MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane".
11:09 Ukrainian militants fired at the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Damage was received to apartment buildings on the street. Petrovsky, they report a fire.
11:07 AFU fired again at the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. Fixed damage to buildings on the street. Novozavodskaya.
10:55 The people's militia of the LPR, with the support of the RF Armed Forces, having completed the cleansing of Popasnaya, entered the administrative border of the LPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
10:21 A square named after Hero of the Russian Federation Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov will appear in Donetsk
This was stated by the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel.
10:20 In the DPR, about 5,000 subscribers remain without power supply
As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, 58 transformer substations and about 5,000 household subscribers were de-energized, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
09:50 Ukrainian fighters from the positions in Krasnogorovka launched an artillery strike on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Detailed information is being specified.
09:49 A total of 400 people evacuated from Mariupol in a day
Over the past day, from 08:00 on May 9 to 08:00 on May 10, 400 people, including 70 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on May 10, 29,962 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
09:37 According to the official data of the JCCC DPR in the territory within the borders before the start of the NWO from 17.02.22 as of 09:30 10.05.22
During the 83 days of the escalation, 108 civilians were killed, including four children.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 488 civilians, incl. 40 children.
Damage:
— 3273 residential housing construction;
— 690 civil infrastructure facilities, including 41 medical institutions, 116 educational institutions, 188 social security facilities, 27 critical infrastructure facilities, 318 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack Kirovsk, Kuibyshev, Leninsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, and Dokuchaevsk.
- 351 vehicles.
During the 83 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 2,633 cases of firing were recorded, of which 2,376 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 26,160 ammunition of various calibers, including 27 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", five MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", 10 MLRS missilesBM-27 "Hurricane" and 3,726 MLRS missiles BM-21 "Grad".
#3
Sounds more like a trade show than a 'summit'. And while certain parties have been dis-invited from the main event, I'm sure private showings can be arranged. Gentlemen, there is money to be made!
[IsraelTimes] Former Tel Aviv District Court vice president sworn into post alongside 81 other judges appointed to various judicial positions; will replace retiring justice Neal Hendel.
#2
In the film Blade Runner 2049, flying cars navigate among skyscrapers Runaway, Gene Simmons whallops targets using drones, which utilize multiple detection systems.
[BenarNews] Recent satellite imagery shows that China is continuing to actively develop its facilities on the disputed Subi Reef in the South China Sea, two months after a top U.S. commander said Beijing had "fully militarized" it.
Simularity Inc., a U.S. geospatial intelligence company, said that an analysis of satellite imagery from May 5 has revealed new structures and seven active construction sites on Subi, the coral reef occupied by China since 1988 but also claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
In March, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said that the construction of missile arsenals, aircraft hangars, radar systems and other military facilities at Subi Reef, as well as Mischief Reef and Fiery Cross "appeared to have been completed."
Subi is one of several major bases that China built during a massive dredging and artificial island-building campaign in the Spratlys that began in 2013, creating 3,200 acres of new land and giving it a new strategic foothold in the South China Sea.
In its natural state, Subi is what is known as a low-tide elevation and an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that as it is submerged at high tide, Subi is not an island but considered "sea bed" and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) constructions on the reef are illegal. China rejected the ruling.
Until now, China has reclaimed 976 acres on Subi, according to the Asia Maritime Initiative (AMTI) at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The seven active construction sites are located in the northern and southern parts of the reef, with visible presence of trucks, construction equipment and material, Simularity said.
"A significant amount of sand" is seen at the sites, indicating new roads and structures are being built. At one site in the south, there are new walls and parking lots, Simularity said, without drawing further conclusions about the possible function of the sites under construction.
EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Subi (Zamora in the Philippines) Reef lies just 12 nautical miles from the Philippine-administered Thitu Island, which is the second largest natural feature in the Spratlys after Taiping (Itu Aba) Island, occupied by Taiwan.
China has developed it into a military base that can accommodate a garrison of 200 troops and a helipad, according to Philippine officials.
AMTI says there are a number of important structures on Subi, including a large lighthouse, five hangers that each can accommodate 20 combat aircraft, and an over 3,000-meter airstrip, completed in early 2016.
Aquilino said in March that the function of China’s artificial islands is "to expand the offensive capability of the PRC ... They can fly fighters, bombers plus all those offensive capabilities of missile systems."
"They threaten all nations who operate in the vicinity and all the international sea and airspace," he added.
China’s Civil Aviation Authority said it successfully tested a civilian flight on Subi in July 2016, using a Boeing 737 airplane, "further enhancing its capability to provide public services as a responsible player in the region."
The Philippines and Vietnam both protested against the test flight which is not known to have become regularly scheduled.
#3
Can you say Olonga-Po in Chinese? 12 miles to Philippine-administered Thitu Island.
The island serves as the town proper to the municipality of Kalayaan. Only Island, among all Philippine-occupied Spratly islands, currently inhabited by 300 Filipino civilians. a significant number of structures, including a municipal hall, multi-purpose hall, health center, school, police station, coast guard station, marine research station, water-filtration plant, engineering building, marina, communication tower, and military barracks.
#5
China is turning inward. it has the critical mass for a self sustaining domestic economy as long as Russia is their partner for energy. The trio with India makes the entire region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Solomon Islands (and Australia if they want to turn chinese, LOL ) the perfect world for an economy. That's why the original silk road developed organically thousands of years ago. The need for resources to build stuff makes the even more sense for the new silk road. The Subi Reef it’s a sort of an air-carrier and hyper sonic base to protect their business from AUKUS interference and piratery. As the anglos and USA show the real intention that the Davos pirates had in mind regarding Russia.
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^ Absolutely. The Chinese Communists are your friend
I liked this: The Subi Reef it’s a sort of an air-carrier and hyper sonic base to protect their business from AUKUS interference and piratery. As the anglos and USA show the real intention that the Davos pirates had in mind regarding Russia.
Hey, Joe! Might you not actually be from, say, Acapulco?
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Aca joe was a famous apparel brand in the 70 and 80s. I was involved with until 2007, and yes I lived there great memories. Baby o’. La Huerta Rebecca , El Campanario.
I’m in Malibu, retired now
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ACA JOE[1] is a clothing line for men, women, boys and girls that originated in Acapulco in the 1970s.[2] By. 1978, ACA JOE was well established as a clothing retailer, with over 75 stores in various cities throughout Mexico, including: Acapulco, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Mexico City.[3] ACA JOE specializes in well-designed cotton clothing inspired by the beach lifestyle of Acapulco.[4]
Joseph Rank, a Los Angeles clothing designer, is the founder and owner of ACA JOE. The company's major growth came after Rank teamed with Harry R. Kraatz and William A. Meyer, in the early 1980s to take over the Inmar Corporation. Inmar's retail outlets were transformed into ACA JOE stores and the company name was changed to ACA JOE INTERNATIONAL.
In the mid-1980s, there were more than 100 ACA JOE stores around the U.S., and the company's stock was the fastest rising stock on Nasdaq in 1985. The company's stock was deleted from the Nasdaq over-the-counter trading system on April 1, 1988, because of the company's failure to meet Nasdaq's capital and surplus requirements.[5]
In the 1990s, ACA JOE focused on its market in Mexico and was sold in over 35 shopping center and beach stores and featured in the Palacio de Hierro department stores. In the 2000s (decade), ACA JOE was sold in the Liverpool department stores and Costco in Mexico.
Since 2007, ACA JOE has been exclusively sold through La Comercial Mexicana and Soriana in Mexico. The logo was designed by Mexican American artist Joe Vera.[6]
A regional success story that survived the fad phase, as most do not. Well done!
#5
The PI people are very sentimental. They are incredibly forgiving in nature. While we like to mock Imelda for her shoes, the people loved her. Her 3,000 shoes would not have fed many people for very long. The poverty issues are a lot more complicated than that. While, from the outside, this looks a lot like the Marcos dictatorship taking hold again, I would wait and see. The last president was a nut job authorizing the police killing of undesirables. Before that was and actor that lived for corruption and then there was GMA who sold the Philippines to China. We will see. And for the love of God the Philippinos need to rethink how they name their kids. Most common names for girls is Apple, baby, honey, or Cherry. Bing, ping, and bong are common names for men. Its a bit insane.
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Heh. Who did "Cory" Aquino endorse? Heh...
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#7
Humans certainly love dynasties, no matter what form of government is in place.
#8
Pardon, I am a bit confused as how Duterte fits into this, as DM seems fascinated on other things.
I will say about the masks, I do love the photos of masked people with captions like "beaming". It reminds me of a photo of like three gals in burkas standing in front of a famous landmark, "Really enjoying ourselves." or "Enjoying bowl of spaghetti." as it is slurped under the hood.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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